The Jungle Book
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jon Favreau
Bill Murray
Ben Kingsley
Idris Elba
Neel Sethi
Scarlett Johansson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
This collection of fables includes stories about Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, whose friends are a bear and a panther, and whose enemy is a tiger.
Director
Jon Favreau
Cast
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Bill Murray
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Ben Kingsley
Idris Elba
Neel Sethi
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Scarlett Johansson
Jon Favreau
Emjay Anthony
Chloe Hechter
Sara Arrington
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Sam Raimi
Sean Johnson
Asher Blinkoff
Brighton Rose
Max Favreau
Dee Bradley Baker
Thierry Labbe
Sasha Schreiber
Lupita Nyong'o
Kendrick Reyes
Knox Gagnon
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Giancarlo Esposito
Garry Shandling
Merdyce C. Mcclaran
Russell Peters
Ritesh Rajan
Kai Schreiber
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Christopher Walken
Artie Esposito
Lupita Nyong'o
Allan Trautman
Madeleine Favreau
Crew
Ashish N . Kukian
Christopher A J Pitt
Ruben A. Lahn Jr
Nathan Abbot
David Abbott
Wietse Abe
Craig Abele
Nathaniel Acord
Ian Adams
Matthew Adams
Yemi Adelekan
Brian Adler
Oliver Adranghi
Anton Agerbo
Gerardo Aguilera
Malcolm Aitchison
Naveen Kumar Akepati
Mohammad Akram
Firdous Alam
James Alden
Holly Aldersley
James Aldous
Daniel Alejo
Michele Alessi
Steven Alessi
Gergana Alexandrova
Johan Alfort
Mark Edward Allen
Molly Allen
Tyler Allison
Jon Allitt
Antonio Almaraz
Alfonso Alpuerto
Christian Alzmann
Sean Amborn
Thomas Amborn
Paul Amiras
Anuj Anand
Jennifer Anaya
Shelley Andagan
Svend Andersen
Greta Anderson
Magnus Andersson
Julian Andraus
Nino Kristoffer C Aniceto
Chris Anthony
Alphy Anto
Pasquale A. Antonelli
Galder Apraiz
Jane Apthorp
Charlie Araiza
Alejandro Arango
Ryan Arcus
Sarah Arduini
Paul Arion
David Armitage
Charlie Armstrong
Eric William Armstrong
Gabriel Arnold
Adam Arnot
Sara Arrington
Sara Arrington
Mike Aslin
Sven Assmuss
José E Astacio Jr.
Jonathan Attenborough
Jean-marie Aubry
James Austin
Mark Anthony Austin
Jared Auty
Derrick Auyoung
Jolan Auzeby
Lillian Awa
Shaik Azam
Puneeth P B
Ed Babb
Vikas Bableshwar
Jonathan Bach
Giribabu Badi
Carlo Alberto Bagliolid
Tim Baier
Adam Bailey
Lucy Bailey
Ruth Bailey
Richard Baillie
Marc Baird
Dimitri Bakalov
Jonathan Baker
Sam Baker
Manjusha Balachandran
Girish Balakrishnan
Girish Balakrishnan
Srikar Balakrishnan
Dale Balani
Yogesh Balguri
Madhu Bandla
Danielle Baneham
Subhashish Banik
Terrence Bannon
Ravi Bansal
Thomas Banuls
Todd Baranowski
Marco Barbati
Philip Barnard
Jacquie Barnbrook
Ingrid Pons Barneo
Peter Barnes
Hayden Barnett
Suzette Barnett
James M Barron
Teresa Barsali
John Bartnicki
Yuri Bartoli
Brad Baruh
Cedric Battude
Remy Bay
Peta Bayley
Ryan Beagan
Jamie Beard
Ty Beck
Paul Becker
Thomas Becker
Leah Beevers
Hamish Bell
James Bell
Richard J Bell
William Bell
Clair Bellens
Christopher Belson
Stephen Bennett
Brandon Bennitt
Salim Bensrhir
Siobhan Bentley
Michole Bergstrom
David Bernstein
Jonathan Berry
Sam Berry
Stephane Bertout
Dennis Bethke
Gianluigi Bevilacqua
Siddharth Bhagwat
Shweta Bhatnagar
Rachel Bianculli
Emil Bidiuc
Andrea Biklian
Bibu Binoy
Nunzio Bitetti
George Black
Peter Blackburn
Dan Blacker
Helen Blake
Derek Blume
Martin Blunden
Jules Bodenstein
Tony Bohorquez
Roger Bolanos
Kevin Bolen
Blake Bolger
Kishore Boloor
Srikanth Bommi
Luca Bonatti
John Lord Booth Iii
Sudeepto Bose
Micha Bostrom
Dionysis Bouloutzas
Athena Bourika
Antoine Bouthors
Ryan Bowden
Katreena Erin Bowell
James Bown
Christopher Boyes
Rebecca Boyle
Bob Bradshaw
Neal Bradshaw
Derek Brady
Michael T Brady
Mark Braithwaite
Benjamin Bratt
David M Breaux
Devin Breese
Hans Brekke
Solomon James Brende
John Brennan
Bailey Brent
Zaira Brilhante
Simon Britnell
Timothy Brodsky
Laura Brooks
Austin Brown
Ben Brown
Helen Brownell
Joerg Bruemmer
Emily Bruza
Rory Bryans
Greg Bryant
Julian Bryant
Thomas Buckingham
Sirius Buisson
Peter Bujdoso
Ross Burgess
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Wide Release in United States April 15, 2016
Released in United States on Video August 30, 2016
Based on the classic collection of fables "The Jungle Book" written by Rudyard Kipling and published by MacMillan Publishers in 1894.
Production on this project was accelerated by Disney who is in competition with Warner Brothers both are using Kipling's public domain to remake the story.
Project marks the young actor, Neel Sethi's debut role.
Wide Release in United States April 15, 2016
Released in United States on Video August 30, 2016
The production process involved the project first being animated, then shot in live action, and then the two versions were melded together to create the finished film.